In Popular Culture
- In the film The Warriors, the leader of the punks uses an Italian stiletto to attack the leader of the warriors Swan while they are hiding in the bathroom at the subway. Adding to this, there is also a gang in the script of the Warriors known as The Stilettos.
- In the film Gladiator, an anachronistic stiletto is used by Commodus to stab Maximus.
- In the Nick Carter series of spy novels, one of Carter's trademark weapons is a 400-year-old stiletto named Hugo said to have made by Benvenuto Cellini
- In Red Dragon, Dr. Hannibal Lecter stabs Will Graham in the stomach with a stiletto.
- A stiletto-style switchblade is used in the famous knife fight scene in West Side Story.
- In both the 1957 and 1997 versions of the film 12 Angry Men, a stiletto-style switchblade knife is a key plot point and central piece of evidence in the murder trial of a delinquent teen.
- In the games Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed Revelations, a stiletto knife is available for purchase and use as a weapon.
- Billy Joel's 1978 Album 52nd Street (album) features the song "Stiletto", about a relationship with a woman reminiscent of having to face an enemy with this type of knife, and her skill in using it.
- In the Ken Follet book "EYE OF THE NEEDLE" the main character uses a stiletto as his primary weapon.
- In the text-based computer adventure game Zork I by Infocom a stiletto can be obtained by defeating the thief.
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Mai is shown to use some of these in her assortment of knives.
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